Category: Illustrative Examples

  • Organelles in Motion

    Theme Students make a flash animation illustrating distinguishing features of their assigned organelle(s). Project Using a variety of electronic resources, research, and storyboard accurate information about your assigned organelle(s), citing your sources. Select one or more distinguishing features to animate. In your animation, at least one micrograph should be included. Include a written summary.

  • Documentary: WHMIS Safety in Science Lab

    Theme WHMIS Project Electronically produce a web-based short film that demonstrates your understanding of safety in a high school science laboratory. Include in this film safety procedures and close-up shots of school equipment bearing any/all WHMIS symbols, with narrative explanations.

  • Students in Deep Freeze

    Theme It takes the addition of significant amounts of energy to defrost a freezer. Project Create a digitally designed report including 3-5 zoom(8-10x) photos illustrating the following science phenomena: Add thermal energy to a water and ice mixture at 0ºC, and record the temperature every 30 seconds until the water is boiling and the temperature…

  • SWF-ly Animated Angles

    Theme Extend the concepts of sine and cosine for angles from 0 to 180 Project Create a web-based flash animation illustrating the solution to the following math problem: Using available technology, calculate and record the values, to four decimal places, of the following trigonometric ratios. sin 70º sin 110º sin 47º sin 133º sin 69º…

  • A Cultural Study of A Canadian Writer

    Theme consider various ideas, evidence, and viewpoints to expand understanding of texts, others, and self discuss ways in which texts convey and challenge individual and community values, and behaviours Project Study the influence that early cultural experience has on well-known Canadian writers, such as Michael Ondaatje, Timothy Findley, Margaret Laurence, and Margaret Atwood. As part…

  • Persuasive short documentary film on human rights

    Thematic respond personally and critically to individuals, events and ideas presented in a variety of Canadian and international texts respond personally and critically to ideas and values presented in a variety of Canadian and international texts Project Using a human rights issue drawn from a Social Studies 10 unit of study, prepare a persuasive short…